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agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personifed. It is strictly and philosophically true in nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is tr…

Pleasing the mind or senses in a high degree; delighting; fascinating; attractive. How charming is divine philosophy. Milton.

rder or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses. The gay, social sense, by decency chastised. Thomson.

Making choices; fickle. [Obs.] His choiceful sense with every change doth fit. Spenser.

To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. "I was choked at this word." Swift.

iled in a country, and who is a citizen, though neither native nor naturalized, in such a sense that he takes his legal status from such country.

ed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discering objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition.

o clairvoyance; discerning objects while in a mesmeric state which are not present to the senses.

ommon interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose; -- generally used in a bad sense.

y three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight. [Written also clough.] McCulloch.

Compelling, in a physical sense; powerful. [Obs.] The cogent force of nature. Prior.

by government authority, making it legally current as money; -- much used in a collective sense. It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the current coin of the realm. Hallam.

Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.

esp. a union or alliance of persons or states to effect some purpose; -- usually in a bad sense. A combination of the most powerful men in Rome who had conspired my ruin. Melmoth.

boil. (b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot. -- To come to one's self, to recover one's senses. -- To come to pass, to happen; to fall out. -- To come to the scratch. (a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in beginning a contest; hence: (b) To meet an an…

e held in commendam. The practice was abolished by law in 1836. There was [formerly] some sense for commendams. Selden. Partnership in commendam. See under Partnership.

A doing, or preperation, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.

, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property. Though life and sense be common to men and brutes. Sir M. Hale.

onveniences of life; sifficiency without excess. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words -- health, peace, and competence. Pope. Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. Shak.

A picking of heart; poignant grief proceeding from a sense of guilt or consciousness of causing pain; the sting of conscience. He acknowledged his disloyalty to the king, with expressions of great compunction. Clarendon.